Worlds Within Worlds: The Novels of Ivan Turgenev - Princeton Legacy Library 1045 by Jane Costlow Details
The novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) is known primarily as a historian of his age and his elegant prose hatred - like the simplest piece of everyday art - and his…
The novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) is known primarily as a historian of his age and his elegant prose hatred - like the simplest piece of everyday art - and his work is partly gratified because it is a known and partial world because its form gives to the content that indicates resonance. Here, Jean Costello captures the historical and aesthetic elegance of Turgenev's realist novels in the close readings of Rodin, the nobility of the nobles, the eve, the fathers and the children, all written between 1855 and 1861.
Each article focusing on a particular aspect of Turgenev's art is linked to his human and aesthetic concerns. This study defies the traditional views of Turgenev as an objective record of his age, suggesting that the attractive qualities of his novels lie less in his history than in the lyrical and aesthetic consciousness that his novels have shaped.
Costlow explores the lyrical contemplation, pastoral longing, and undeclared passion that is the hallmark of the prose of Turgenev and which forms "his worlds within the worlds," the worlds of his historical hate novels. During all this, illustrates how the aesthetics of constraint and insight conceal the author's awareness of the limitations and complexity of the human experience. By emphasizing the mysterious and difficult qualities in his works, Costlow reveals about Turgenev to reveal new readings.
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